Lady Tiger Sharks one-hit Wewahitchka
The Port St. Joe Lady Tiger Sharks varsity softball team has opened the season with back to back wins.
After opening at home. Feb. 18 against the Marianna Lady Bulldogs and earning a 16-5 win, Derek Garland’s squad traveled to Wewa Feb. 20 where they shut out the Lady Gators 10-0.
A six-run second inning and a nine-run fourth was enough to defeat Marianna, as junior pitcher Christina Clayton gave up five earned runs on nine hits, striking out eight and walking three.
Junior Brooklyn Bishop led the attack, slamming a solo home run and scoring three runs. Sophomore Aubrey Armstead went 1 for 3, driving in two runs and scoring two.
Sophomore Annie Gainer drove in a run and scored two, while junior Trinity Farmer scored three times.
As a team Marianna outhit Port St. Joe 10 to 8, but five Lady Bulldog errors, compared to Port St. Joe’s one, sealed the Lady Bulldogs’ fate.
Against Wewa, Bishop hurled a one-hitter, a single by Wewa’s Eden Rustin, while striking out eight and walking three. The Lady Gators used three pitchers – Severa Haney, Laila Suber and Maycee Johnson – with Haney striking out eight in four innings of work.
Port St. Joe scattered eight hits over seven innings, and committed one error compared to Wewa’s eight.
Lady Tiger Sharks roster
1 eighth grader Brooke Peacock
2 sophomore Annie Gainer
3 junior Hailey Green
4 sophomore Aubrey Armstead
5 junior Trinity Farmer
6 freshman Olivia Maxwell
7 junior Brooklyn Bishop
9 junior Hallie Mize
10 eighth grader KK McNair
13 junior Christina Clayton
14 junior Nijah Quinn
17 junior Elli Newman
20 eighth grader Alaina Green
34 senior Addy Silcox
Meet the Editor
David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.
Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.